Out of the eight missions under India’s 2008 National Action Plan on Climate Change (NAPCC), six are about adaptation to climate change impacts, focusing on water, agriculture and other areas, reports India Climate Dialogue.
“Should there not be a global goal on adaptation, same as there is one on mitigation, based on which the vulnerability of each country can be assessed?” Susheel Kumar, Additional Secretary in India’s Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change asked ministers from a number of counties gathered at the recent Delhi Sustainable Development Summit DSDS, convened by The Energy and Resource Institute (TERI). “There must be a balance between mitigation and adaptation. There is a tendency on the part of some countries to focus only on mitigation,” he added.